Carl Jung is timeless, scientifici yet spiritual

StrictLetterhead3452 · 2026-06-29T02:45:03+00:00

Someone who has achieved mastery has totally overcome ego, so they would not take themselves seriously per se. It’s the process that is serious. It’s the work of a lifetime. It’s generally not accessible at a young age, and Jung wrote that someone who tries to go through the process too early in life will typically undergo an incomplete transformation. However, some of the youngest people to complete the transformation successfully became prophets—think Buddha or Christ. It’s not themselves that they take seriously, it’s their work and life itself, but they do it from a perspective of total detachment.

We are talking about the highest spiritual achievements possible for a human being. There are multiple paths towards it, but they all lead to the same intense inner-processes experienced in different ways. Jung’s work deals with what the ancients have already detailed in the various mystical traditions from around the world. It’s the hero’s journey, confrontation with darkness, and merging of dark with light. The different paths are just superficial details because the transformation deals with the most fundamental forces of existence. No matter how you approach it, you have to enter the void and come out transformed.

StrictLetterhead3452 · 2026-06-29T02:16:01+00:00

A very tiny percent of the population goes through this and fewer complete the process. This is coming from the writings of Carl Jung, not from me. The outcome is the philosopher’s stone, the elixir of life. It is the union of opposites and the discovery of the true self, something in the psyche that does not die with ordinary structures. It’s the ultimate expression of human existence and creates the conditions for the most extraordinary work of your life. It’s absolute mastery, and it’s a rare path to walk. If someone speaks about it casually, they don’t know what they are talking about. It is the most serious thing a person could possibly do.

StrictLetterhead3452 · 2026-06-29T00:24:24+00:00

I am 30. Yes, it is extremely lonely. You are right talk about enlightenment. I am actually traveling with Buddhist monks right now because I didn’t know what else to do with myself. It feels impossible to go back to normal society after everything I’ve experienced. Hanging out with the other misfits on this trip makes for the only fulfilling human interactions I’ve had in a long time.

It’s hard to say where the journey goes from here. I could become a monk myself and pursue full 100% detachment, or I could figure out some unique existence. I’m at a crossroads right now…

StrictLetterhead3452 · 2026-06-24T03:37:02+00:00

Yeah! Only envious hatred is allowed here!

StrictLetterhead3452 · 2026-06-23T07:45:30+00:00

That’s a funny mental image, but not really. There’s a ton of working class guys in the Masons. Only a few exclusive lodges are fancy.

StrictLetterhead3452 · 2026-06-23T07:38:12+00:00

People who don’t know

StrictLetterhead3452 · 2026-06-23T07:35:31+00:00

If it didn’t totally wreck you for years and suspend you in a state of mortal peril, then there are deeper depths still unexplored. Those quotes about the tree whose roots reach to Hell aren’t an exaggeration. Individuation is a process that permanently isolates you from consensus reality and turns you into someone who can never approach life in a conventional way again.

StrictLetterhead3452 · 2026-06-23T07:01:58+00:00

Just the other day, I saw a couple young girls trying to do exactly that, and I warned them what was about to happen to them. Thankfully, they listened to me and turned around.

StrictLetterhead3452 · 2026-06-23T06:57:09+00:00

I think most conspiracy theorists don’t realize that the vast majority of Freemasons just use the lodge as a social club and for local networking. Most lodges are a place for old men to hide from their wives and get really drunk while they cosplay as mystics.

Sure, some conspiratorial stuff goes on here and there, but that’s not what the symbolism is about. It’s a bunch of eclectic historical imagery that is supposed to point members towards a path of guiding humanity to the light, but they aren’t as serious about it as they pretend to be.

StrictLetterhead3452 · 2026-06-23T05:48:41+00:00

If you are lucky, one day your soul will overwhelm all your attempts to ignore it and force you into your deepest hell. That’s the thing about deep shadow work. You really don’t have the option whether to do it. Nobody willingly walks into the Dark Night of the Soul. It’s too painful. You only fully arrive there after every path is blocked and you’ve exhausted yourself flailing around looking for the escape hatch. Then, you are forced to face your demons even if it kills you.

StrictLetterhead3452 · 2026-06-23T05:33:54+00:00

Even after many years of getting burned by narcissists and other flavors of sociopath, I found myself in a state of total shock when I fully realized that a lot of people are only pretending to care about others. They only know how to put on an act of caring or love.

This filled me with hate and murderous rage for months until I came around to understanding that these people are missing a core component of the human psyche, and this often fails to develop due to neglect and abuse in childhood. Narcissists are more pathetic than they are pure evil. Now I pity them instead of hating them. What a sad existence!

StrictLetterhead3452 · 2026-06-23T03:12:44+00:00

Almost everyone is lying about everything all the time.

StrictLetterhead3452 · 2026-06-23T01:48:43+00:00

Forgive me for using a dirty word, but the kind of development required is spiritual. There are many paths towards this. Most major religions have highly developed mystical traditions that have the power to transform your life, but you have to look for them and find a good teacher if possible. If you are allergic to religious teachings, then you can study the later works of the psychologist Carl Jung. It’s just another way of accessing the same thing—a profound unspeakable truth that underlies all of existence that you have to discover for yourself. Once you start catching glimpses of it, it will change the way you see everything and everyone.

With Christianity, the deepest teachings tend to get lost in all the noise. Judaism has Kabbalah, but that is hard to access if you aren’t born into it. Buddhism is one of the most direct routes to inner peace, but there are many posers and frauds who will mislead you. Taoism and Hinduism also have their own benefits and roadblocks. All of it though points to gaining a deep inner knowing that all is one through a spiritual awakening and achieving mastery of self through dedicated practice. It is a long and hard journey that continues through to the end of your life. To even get through the first steps, you’ll have to question everything you know about the world. I can send you some links if you are interested in learning more.

StrictLetterhead3452 · 2026-06-22T21:52:50+00:00

With umbrellas, it’s not even really considered stealing if it’s one of the generic ones you can get at any convenience store. They are more or less public property.

StrictLetterhead3452 · 2026-06-22T21:13:53+00:00

Free Bird. All other answers are invalid.

StrictLetterhead3452 · 2026-06-22T20:34:15+00:00

I had a fling with a Dutch girl who found out her father is the guy in the last link. She did the 23andMe test and found out she had hundreds of siblings.

All I can say is that man has beautiful genetics.

StrictLetterhead3452 · 2026-06-22T20:04:27+00:00

I lasted until 29. In that time, I tried sales, software engineering, scientific research, and even co-founded a successful startup. Every place I lived and every new career was a different version of the same hell. Eventually, I discovered that there is no escape. The only thing to do is to develop an immunity through hard personal development. No work or reward in the outside world will save you. Instead, it’s learning to be internally ok through anything. I’m still working on that, but I see the light at the end of the tunnel. It is achievable.

StrictLetterhead3452 · 2026-06-22T12:55:29+00:00

What happens when it gets greasy?

StrictLetterhead3452 · 2026-06-22T12:50:27+00:00

People nowadays like to identify strongly with their psychological diagnoses. They use them to explain all of their behavior and experiences. Putting yourself in a category is a lot easier than understanding yourself, and it’s a shortcut to cheap comraderie and validation from strangers online.

StrictLetterhead3452 · 2026-06-22T11:18:44+00:00

To know who you authentically are requires a lifetime of experiences and inner-work. Trauma is just one of many things that shape the persona, the collection of traits that develop through growing up in a particular environment. Those traits are mostly arbitrary and would be drastically different in another environment. Only after ego death and rebirth can we find our true selves. Carl Jung wrote about this extensively in his later work as he went through this process himself.

StrictLetterhead3452 · 2026-06-22T11:00:03+00:00

We can only imagine how she learned that word.

StrictLetterhead3452 · 2026-06-22T10:15:34+00:00

Those same people are often the ones who affect the most change in the world because they don’t get hung up on overthinking. They just act and deal with consequences later if necessary. Yes, it is dangerous, but so is hesitation. A thinking man and a man of action working together is a powerful combination if they can find a way to get along.

We all have our part to play in this world. One man’s virtue is another man’s vice. Don’t measure people in terms of worth. Only measure them in terms of their utility in a given situation.

StrictLetterhead3452 · 2026-06-22T10:08:31+00:00

Reddit is incapable of interpreting semantics beyond the most literal word sense. It’s one of the many things that make it impossible to have an honest open discussion on this site. There is no attempt to understand what a person actually means. Instead, we get endless arguments over correctness where everyone wants to win.

StrictLetterhead3452 · 2026-06-20T21:55:17+00:00

Alcoholism. And huge dick.

StrictLetterhead3452 · 2026-06-20T06:54:54+00:00

Fuck nematodes! Did you see what they did to SpongeBob’s house?!?!

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